Get him off the list: Erwin Coman is here to stay - Walla! sport

2021-10-29T07:32:09.597Z

Erwin Koeman is the last Dutch coach to survive in the Premier League this season, but unlike the two sacked, he is much more vital and effective for the system. After falling into an almost impossible situation in Betar Jerusalem, in which he chose not to give up and deal with what is there, he deserves much more credit.

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Get him off the list: Erwin Coman is here to stay

Erwin Koeman is the last Dutch coach to survive in the Premier League this season, but unlike the two sacked, he is much more vital and effective for the system.

After falling into an almost impossible situation in Betar Jerusalem, in which he chose not to give up and deal with what is there, he deserves much more credit.

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Enjoying the country.

He is a professional who works hard, but also takes his job and position positively, a rare commodity for a coach in the pressure cooker of Betar Jerusalem. Erwin Koeman (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

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Betar has six foreigners today. It went to a one-man camp, Marko Jankovic. Aviel Zargari and Kamso Mara, Koeman received only a week ago when they are out of shape and remove rust from game to game. They both finished the game with Hapoel Haifa with cramps. And if we go back to the brake trio, neither of them is a natural brake. Disassembly and assembly, far from a group in which your believing self can be run and assimilated.

Koeman was given the option to choose a foreign or local assistant coach. He chose Gal Cohen because he thought a local would help him narrow the gaps regarding what he has to learn here. Relative to a foreign coach, he very quickly learned the small-big problems of the Israeli footballer and also of Betar Jerusalem. Even when he gets upset, he learns to live with it. And things like budget cuts, little things related to medicine, physiology, tests that take time and supplements It's definitely not easy for him, but he and Eli Ohana are fighting for them.

"He's more Israeli than Dutch," they say in Betar.

He understands dynamics in the club and in the locker room very quickly, you can't play with him and that's his biggest advantage. "Koeman respects players but knows how to create deterrence. They know what really disgusts him. Will not make it easy for you in training, may not build on you for the game, he loves character and strength to deal with, to have a full staff and competition.

Only those who see character will play with him. "

Koeman gives him respect, but when necessary whips him on expatriates like that of Shlomi Azoulay in Bloomfield or incorrect positioning of the defense.

Krieff (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

In training Koman perfectionist. For him the training is that they do not stop running, he makes separate calls to defensive players, midfielders, and strikers. When the fitness coach wants to do a half-court run in exactly 10 seconds and players do it in less, he stops and scolds them: "Do your job, no more and no less, listen to what you ask for and do what needs to be done." He monitors the performance of the players in the gym, goes down to resolutions with each team member, also analyzes the players all their problems and tells them: "You here are used to playing with the ball and running less. "It can't be that a player runs with the ball and everyone concentrates around him to get the ball. I work with you all the time on the movement and we will not stop working on it until things work out."

Jordan Shua did not come to Koman well from the start. The coach loves vigorously, players who work. Very quickly he murmured that "his laziness is a problem." When Koeman said that he did not encounter discipline issues, just did not like the level of work on the field. When the disciplinary offenses began he did not see with his own eyes. Before the derby in the Toto Cup Koman decided to suspend Shua, the club offered him to fine him because there is no striker for the derby (Boachi and Plater were not in the country) and the coach replied: "No interesting, we will lose a derby, we will win a team". By the way, when they tell Koman that if Shua is thrown out of Betar, he will end his career.

Koeman is a gentleman, but does not make an account.

Some coaches choose to embrace the strong and look for the strength against the weak.

For him, this hierarchy does not exist.

He took Marko Jankovic for a conversation after Ashdod and screamed at him: "You can not continue like this, you are an excellent player but choose to deal with everything except the game, like a little boy, choose where your career goes because that way you do not contribute to us."

He was then taken down to the bench and the Montenegrin faces left him there.

"An Israeli coach would long ago fall apart in this situation" (Photo: Danny Maron)

Captain Ophir Krieff has a status in the locker room, Koeman gives him respect, but when necessary whips him on expatriates like that of Shlomi Azoulay in Bloomfield or incorrect positioning of the defense. In the relegation half against Hapoel Haifa, he screamed at all the players and especially at the defense: "It's a shame, we talked about concentration in the last minutes of the half or game. You have to do something, you do the exact opposite. You are professionals, how does that happen to you? To avoid situations at elevations, but again the same lack of concentration and the same mistakes. What are we working on for that? "

A snapshot and appreciation for the coach can be obtained from the entire shell of the club, from the owner to the most junior employee.

In the case of Koeman, he is greatly appreciated.

Everyone believes he is the man to go, that if they let him do very good things with Betar in the coming years, especially when the budget is not in the sky and young people need to be promoted, improvised and flexible. The club explained this week: In the media or resigns and gets all his money because he can not stand the pressure.

Koeman looks at the situation from the side, he was at the highest levels, no player or situation will move him from his positions.

If he feels it is happening, he will say goodbye that day. "